Friday evening was Michael's belated work holiday party. The Sydney office is quite small so we had an intimate eight course tasting dinner at The Bentley. I tried to take pictures of all the courses, but after a while I started to forget.
Sea urchin, crab, carrot
Pea soup (and other fancy things I can't remember)
Cauliflower custard, white asparagus, and brown butter
Murray cod, baby pink turnips, and brown butter
I don't remember what this is but it had mustard flowers on top
Coconut sorbet, desert lime, and honeydew melon
Charred milk custard, raspberry, and chervil sorbet (I had never even heard of chervil before I had this - quite good)
Over all it was a tasty meal, but the courses were really small and spread out so I was still hungry enough to eat a big snack when I got home.
Saturday night we went to see Belle and Sebastian play at Taronga Zoo as part of the Twilight at Taronga concert series. We hadn't been back to the zoo since about a year ago when our friend, Monty, visited. It was a cool venue for a show, and some kookaburras came out to enjoy the performance. Two of them huddled together and their third-wheel friend sat on a nearby branch just a little above and ahead of us for the last few songs; it was pretty cute. It was too dark by then to get a good pic.
It was a lawn picnic kind of show, but you could walk right up to the stage. At one point they pulled up a lot of people from the audience to dance on stage.
Belle and Sebastian didn't play my favorite song, or even my second favorite song, but I forgive them. As we were waiting for the ferry back to Circular Quay, one of the lead singers actually walked down and got on the boat too. I've never just seen a singer take public transportation after performing, so that was a first. He was really friendly and low-key, talking to some fans and taking pictures, but kind of blending in at the same time.
Sunday we went hiking with one of Michael's coworkers and a bunch of people from a Reddit group to which he belongs. We did the Karloo walking track in Royal National Park (same park we were in last weekend, different area). We didn't make it all the way to the waterfall, but many people in the group swam in the Karloo pools.
It ended up being a full weekend. Michael also managed to squeeze in a frisbee game win. Summer is in full swing down under!
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